[plug] [OT] Help needed : [Fwd: Mail System Error - Returned Mail]

[Bernd Felsche]

On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 10:18:56AM +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:
> >You aren't using a common name as such are you?  Such as say
> >"richard at westnet.com.au" or something else similar?  As spammers
> >typically send to all common names @domain.com to spam people.  e.g.
> >joe at westnet.com.au, john at westnet.com.au etc.

> Unfortunately, you're sorta right. Considering that my surname is
> Meyer, and the ADSL connection is for the whole family, I decided
> to call it "meyers at westnet dot com dot au". The Sender id said
> that he was "Johnnie Meyers" using the same id, which suggests to
> me that maybe there is a duplicate id, with Johnnie baby spamming
> all and sundry with this sort of stuff and I <quote> "get larger
> nuts and penis, more pleasure, more satisfaction"  </quote>. The
> next thing is, he'll be sending off Nigerian 419's and the Feds'll
> haul me off in the Black Maria for Internet fraud, or my id - if I
> ever use it for external mail - will be on the world+dog's black
> hole list.

> I have heard of the spammers stealing people's id's and them
> spamming them with their own id in the Sender/Reply to fields,
> before as well.

Or they do a distributed mail-bombing run with forged headers to a
number of recipients... as what happened to me last Friday evening,
and again on Wednesday afternoon.

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